Tag: Education
Tenant Organizing is Producing and Defending Territory
Expanding on the notion that transforming social relationships transforms space, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
Scholars Against the War on Palestine
Scholars Against the War on Palestine call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Lessons from the Rutgers Strike
Six months later, Rhiannon Maton draws lessons from the Rutgers strike.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.
Beyond Compromise and Constraint
John Clarke writes about education workers in Ontario pushing back against draconian legislation—only to agree to major concessions.
A Tale of Two Strikes
Joanna Lee-Brown and Izzy Plowright discuss the struggle to build a rank-and-file effort to eclipse business unionism and win a major battle for workers at Columbia University.
And the Band Plays On
The role of classical and other US Military Bands in manufacturing patriotism, promoting class distinction, and defending imperialism.
“We Are the Guardians of Public Education”
Rhiannon Maton talks to two founding members of Raising Educators’ Voices (REV), a radical teachers’ union caucus in Vancouver.